Public notice legislation introduced so far in 2024 suggests state legislatures are growing increasingly comfortable allowing news websites to serve as an alternative source of official notice. T...
http://www.nnaweb.org/news-websites-eclipsing-government-sites-as-alternative-source-of-notice
GENE JOHNSON Publisher Emeritus | Press Publications, White Bear Lake, Minnesota I think it is very important that public notice remain in newspapers, and I don’t mean that to be self-serving...
http://www.nnaweb.org/about-the-town-public-notice-in-newspapers
2023 was a lot like 2022: A pretty good year marred primarily by the vote of a GOP-dominated state legislature to allow some local governments to publish notices on their own websites in lieu of ...
Townships in Ohio are seeking the same power already granted to municipalities in the state: the power to publish notice via the internet instead of a local newspaper. Introduced late last week...
http://www.nnaweb.org/move-to-government-websites-picks-up-steam-in-ohio
Last month, we reported that through the end of the summer there were no states that had approved legislation significantly altering their public notice laws (https://bit.ly/3s6f6ez ). Sadly, we ...
http://www.nnaweb.org/ohio-enacts-law-curtailing-newspaper-notice
Public notices in newspapers are part of the three-legged stool of government accountability. Public notices help to inform the public on activities by the government and other public entiti...
With only eight state legislatures still in session, the legislative die for 2023 has largely been cast. There’s always a chance that one of those states could still make mischief, but when the...
http://www.nnaweb.org/public-notice-picture-coming-into-focus
A divorce is finalized, but it is not recorded in the newspaper until four months later. Someone appears in court for a domestic assault, but the sentence isn't reported until weeks after the f...
http://www.nnaweb.org/be-responsible-in-exercising-rights-to-public-information
The New York Times reported last month (https://bit.ly/47bCd7a ) on several incidents in which public officials revoked public notice contracts “in an effort to punish their hometown newspapers...
http://www.nnaweb.org/is-new-york-the-wild-west-of-public-notice
LEARNING FROM THE MASTER: HOW JIM LOCKWOOD WEAVES AWARD-WINNING JOURNALISM OUT OF PUBLIC NOTICES Public notice journalism is an art, according to Jim Lockwood, award-winning city government rep...
It was bound to happen again. Jim Lockwood, a reporter for the Times-Tribune in Scranton, Pennsylvania, has been named the 2023 winner of PNRC’s Michael Kramer Public Notice Journalism Award....
Last week, Louisiana became the first state to pass a law that will eventually make newspaper websites the primary platform for public notice and Jackson County, South Dakota, government officia...
At the end of June 2023, Illinois Press Association Chief Technology Officer Ron Kline announced the hiring of Gannett's Neil Burkhouse to assist in the expansion of placepublicnotice.com . Pla...
http://www.nnaweb.org/burkhouse-joins-illinois-press-to-assist-in-public-notice-project
Most newspapers now publish notices on their website in addition to print, even in states that don’t require it. As we’ve written before (https://bit.ly/3MAcugc ), it’s one of the most impo...
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA — On April 14, the North Carolina Press Association (NCPA), a leading newspaper trade association in Raleigh, proudly endorsed the Illinois Press Association's web p...
http://www.nnaweb.org/ncpa-endorses-ipa-as-official-public-notice-website-partner
National Newspaper Association Chair John M. Galer today asked the Postal Regulatory Commission to stop adding a 2% surcharge onto postage rate increases as part of its efforts to bring Periodic...
You might have heard that the Walt Disney Co. recently took steps to frustrate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ attempt to strip the entertainment conglomerate of its power to appoint members of the ...
Most states require newspapers to have paying subscribers to publish notices, but at least a few grant that authority to free-distribution papers, as well. Those requirements don’t change very ...
http://www.nnaweb.org/newspapers-in-two-states-battle-over-right-to-publish-notices
Bills have been introduced in at least 15 states allowing or requiring official notice to be published on various platforms other than local newspapers. That’s significantly more legislative ac...
http://www.nnaweb.org/bills-undermining-newspaper-notice-introduced-in-multiple-states
In any kind of business or organization, it’s prudent to examine what programs have run their course. The question that has to be dealt with is this — when do you pronounce something dead and...
http://www.nnaweb.org/classifieds-the-good-the-bad-and-increasing-sales